they are good announcers, and i like them. but i see what your saying. i think its mostly because there is not much to be happy about in warriors town right now, so they are just trying to find bright spots.

They’re just doing their jobs, I don’t think negativity and pessimism would bode well for their job security. Besides, I feel kinda bad for them. I’m sure they’re as frustrated with Warriors basketball as anyone, but they actually have to sit there, watch it, and comment on it.

Skeptic….HAHA and no they are not annoying

Period. Listen to the other announcers around the league and you realize how lucky we are to have great announcers who are basketball fans first then fans of the Warriors. You think their annoying because there positive. They cant be like everyone on this site and just bash and find every fault in every thing that anyone on the Warriors does.

Barnett is fine, but Fitzgerald is biased as hell.

Whenever the other team’s player hits a few baskets, supposedly they could not be playing any better. Supposedly they are on fire. And when they miss, he says that they “are human,” in a sarcastic tone that suggests they have been getting lucky the entire time.

Whenever the Warriors are losing by less then 15, he will pull out a couple stats that look bad and say despite that, we are only down _ points!

He probably believes he is being unbiased with the foul calls he sees, but I’ve seen him overlook quite a few that benefit our team, though Barnett usually balances that out.

but Barnett is still good, Breen and Van Gundy tho is vastly superior.

Listen to any other announce team in the league and get back to us.

I remember during the playoffs they still had the games on FSN while on TNT/ESPN and I watched the FSN ones because I liked barnett and fitz so much better nuff said

to see Fitz and Barnett getting so much props here. It really is well-deserved. Listen to any other home broadcast on NBA pass or Sirius… Its literally unlistenable.

I think sometimes when the team is doing so poorly it seems like they’re being homers if they aren’t ripping every posession but that would just be boring and un-informative. We know the team is bad, they know the team is bad and its not really their job to be studio analysts like Barkely or columnists like Kawakami. Thats why Steinmetz is there at halftime, away from from the court.

We are really lucky to have the high quality broadcasts here in the Bay for all the teams.

fitz and barnett generally call good games and root for the warriors, as i do. i’d much rather have them point out small warriors positive notes than have someone rooting for the other team, as does the radio announcer …. DWIGHT HOWARD DUNKS! the guy gets so excited about other teams it pisses me offff!!

I live in LA, so i see the Lakers/Clips games and Barnett gives a much better commentary to the game than any of their announcers – who are a bunch of suck ups.

i also have the League pass and have to bear the opposing team announcers on most W road games and I’ll tell you, the W’s have it real good. The others are not the best and the brightest, but certainly try to make up for it with the asskissing, “We’s”, etc.

My only issue with our guys is Fitz trying to sound like an authority by paraphasing Barnett material from a couple years ago.

they make the game exciting no matter what! plus they actually no about basketball. im glad they have no neutrality. if i want that I’ll go research it myself.

But if you listen to the other announcers in the league, you’ll greatly appreciate having Bob and Jim as ours. There are announcers out there (like the Spurs announcers) who are completely biased and actually diss other teams, there’s also other announcers that sound like frickin robots and sound so dull.

Those guys are a couple of morons. From what I’ve seen, they must be the league’s worst.

I guess every team’s announcers are great to their fans.

I like watching Warriors games in CSN because of our Announcers. Whenever GSW games are televised on TNT nr ESPN, the announcers always talk about the other team.

Also, Jim “Coach” Barnett…you will learn from him

other announcers take back what they say about certain calls. Barnett will call himself out when he realizes he makes a mistake about a certain call.

Yes I also agree with some of the other posters, I have NBA League Pass as well and when you watch the games on there you get the announcers for the home team. I haven’t seen every teams announcers yet, but I really like the Warriors announcers. I think they are pretty objective, if they put a positive spin on things, then so be it, that doesn’t bother me. They are just trying to show what the team is trying to do and what they need to do, I like that.

I really didn’t like the Celtics announcers. Those guys are brutal. I am serious, I was disgusted listening to these guys. I don’t know their names, but the one guy had that kind of fake humble/arrogance that people from Boston can have that is seriously annoying. Fine, the Celtics right now are a far superior team, but don’t be patronizing by disengenously hyping the Warriors when the Celtics are playing well. Then when the Celtics started to faulter that game every call the ref made against the Celtics was false in this guys mind. Then when the Celtics were playing better again it was all gravy and he threw the lowly Warriors a few bones in the form of fake compliments, completely patronizing. I really don’t like the mindset of Boston/New England sports fans. Except I do like the Red Sox, so go figure.

I was very impressed by the Knicks announcers as well, the main guy had a nice voice and was very objective and professional. I could listen to him do any game no problem.

Houston’s announcers I think just told it like it was which was hard to hear because they were right that the Warriors were overmatched by Yao that game.

The others didn’t make an impression either way, but I am down with the Warriors announcers, keep up the good work guys…..